North Dakota's Building Trades Unions

09/15/2024

Affiliates of the Building Trades Unions got a tour of the impressive training facilities of the Camp Grafton Training Center this past week! A grateful thank you to the North Dakota National Guard for inviting us! Wheels are in motion and we look forward to the future collaboration!

04/24/2024

What an amazing event! North America's Building Trades Unions 2024 Legislative Conference was filled with some spectacular leaders! Governor Tim Walz, Acting Secretary Julie Su, Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Governor Josh Shapiro, and President Joe Biden were some of the people that came and spoke to union members about our shared values and goals. Huge thanks to the all of the staff and volunteers that made this fantastic conference possible!

02/07/2024

Huge kudos to the team Be More Colorful for taking the initiative to make genuine, purposeful career exploration a reality! With Matthew Chaussee’s help, we have been able to bring the construction site to the classroom without exposing children to moving equipment or power tools. The other great thing about VR technology is I have a jobsite always in the community to show. We are excited to see this technology/learning tool available to students everywhere in ND!

https://www.inforum.com/business/fargo-developed-careerviewxr-offering-new-level-of-immersion-to-career-discovery

01/26/2024

Come this Saturday to IBEW Local 714 for the “A Taste of North Dakota” by the Souris Valley Dem-NPL. Knoephla soup social at noon with several speakers at 1pm. Come listen to Katrina for U.S. Senate and Trygve Hammer who is running for U.S. Congress! Everyone is welcome!

01/17/2024

Thrilled to announce the Dakota Prairie Apprenticeship Readiness Program is accepting applications for Native Americans! This 12-week program will educate cohorts with skills needed to succeed in a Registered Apprenticeship Program. This program is no cost to Native Americans and will be done online thru Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College. Upon completion, cohorts will look to be into one of the affiliated unions of the State Council. Use the QR code to get more information!

01/16/2024

Mark your calendars Building Trades Unions members in the Minot area for the “A Taste of North Dakota!” On Saturday, January 27th at noon there is a knoephla soup social followed by a meet your candidates. This event is being organized by the Souris Valley Dem-NPL and will be hosted IBEW Local 714.

11/14/2023

Sharing the proclamation by the cities of The City of Fargo - Government City of Moorhead, Minnesota City of West Fargo - Government and the counties of Cass County Government Clay County MN supporting National Apprenticeship Week 2023! Thank you to these local governments support for apprenticeship programs!

11/13/2023

National Apprenticeship Week is here! The State Council will be hosting an event later this week for high school students. Check out our website www.ndbtu.org for links to our affiliates apprenticeship programs!

09/22/2023

Matt’s team Be More Colorful is truly awesome! Congrats on being considered for the Yass Prize for education! You guys have changed the game for us in the construction industry by bringing the construction site to the classroom! This is very well deserved!

Thousands applied, only 64 were chosen as quarterfinalists for this year's Yass Prize! We're ecstatic that our work on CareerView XR made the cut. Read our full press release here: https://www.bemorecolorful.com/nd-startup-receives-national-recognition-as-2023-yass-prize-quarterfinalist/
The Center for Education Reform Forbes

09/13/2023

Today the North Dakota's Building Trades Unions along with the Ironworkers Local 512, Sheet Metal Workers Local #10, IUOE Local 49, and Int'l Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 met with representatives of the The Leadership Care Fund to donate funds raised to benefit all those affected by the July 14th incident.

09/13/2023

Excited to have attended Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s groundbreaking ceremony for the Pioneer Generation Phase IV Expansion! This significant expansion will make the station the largest natural gas generator in the Upper Midwest by a large margin! Proud to have our members working hard to build this project!